Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2008 by Title
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Identity, collective beliefs, and the allocation of resources
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)Humans are social creatures that interact in a number of different and at least partially independent social settings, such as work, home, social and political organisations, and church. In each setting one has an identity, ... -
Opening and closing asymmetry: empirical analysis from ISE Xetra
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)Overnight news yields difficulties for price discovery at market opening culminating in additional return volatility. Biais et al. (2007) show opening prices are sensitive to order flow from the pre-trading session. We ... -
The distribution of productivity in Irish manufacturing between 1995 and 2004 : determinants, changes and implications
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)Using plant level data from the Irish Census of Industrial Production, this paper documents the extent of the productivity spread in Irish manufacturing industries and its determinants. It looks at changes in the distribution ...